Florida Discrimination Attorneys: “sexual orientation” and “gender identity”
According to Florida discrimination attorneys, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, color, national origin, and religion. In the State of Florida, The Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 takes it one step further and adds age, handicap and marital status. Further, both also protect against pregnancy discrimination.
Well, there are two more classifications that are seeking protection under a new bill filed by Representative Kelly Skidmore in the Florida House of Representative. This new bill sees to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the Florida civil rights statute.
Currently in Florida, according to Florida Discrimination Attorneys Alitowski & Moore, it is legal to discriminate against someone because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Though within some cities, these categories are getting more protection at a local level, it is not in all cities and thus not uniform throughout the state.
This new House bill will assist in protecting all Floridians who want to make discrimination in Florida illegal
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2009/11/florida-competitive-workforce-bill-filed-to-add-anti-discrimination-protections-statewide.html
As per this recent article, Florida discrimination attorneys claim that the debate and interest in civil rights is heating up all across the country. Whether the noise is coming from the right or the left, it is here and it is loud.
http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=4859&MediaType=1&Category=26
From Alaska, to Michigan, to Florida, the debate on whether to write laws that give more rights to gay, lesbian or transgender people is very contentious and very active. Both sides are heavily invested in this issue. The two sides are mainly broken down into a religious, conservative and mostly church side versus a civil rights and mostly liberal side.
It is unlikely that the Federal government will intervene into this issue anytime soon. With the health care debate, the 3 current wars that the United States is in, and the current economic and housing crisis that we are in, the Federal government does not seem to have enough room to discuss or put this into its agenda. Currently there are 38 states where it is legal to fire or not hire someone because of their gender identity or expression.
If you have been discriminated against based on your sexual orientation or gender identity, please call and speak to a Florida discrimination attorney at the Law Offices of Andrew S. Alitowski at 888-ASK-ANDREW (275-2637) or contact us online. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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